Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time they 'd heard him admit the Store was built by humans . |
| 2 | He 'd seen her buy the cards and stamps and go through the list of presents to get , seen her write letters to elderly relatives , make the puddings and the mince pies , clean the house , polish the little pieces of silver and brass she 'd acquired , make long shopping lists and then go out and buy things , wrap presents and take out their old Christmas tree and sort through the ornaments . |
| 3 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
| 4 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 5 | When they had eventually managed to get him out of the house he 'd helped her to carry the remaining dishes from the dining-room , a thing he never did . |
| 6 | He 'd thought he had the longest living hamster in captivity . |
| 7 | I tried to look as if this was perfectly normal , as if I 'd asked him to make the entry for me . |
| 8 | When she 'd gone I approached the door timidly . |
| 9 | As soon as he 'd gone she seized the crutch he 'd brought up , and , hobbling into the bathroom , closed the door with a bang . |
| 10 | Leonora nodded obediently , but the moment he 'd gone she drew the kettle over the heat on the Aga before going upstairs with her little hoard of shopping . |
| 11 | He 'd admitted he owned the Mercedes , but it had been exactly that … an admission , rather than a revelation . |
| 12 | When he 'd finished he threw the beer-tin into the pool with the anemones in it . |
| 13 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 14 | His years as a sculptor had taught him to see the human figure in solid , three-dimensional form , and his people now have necks like columns , oval or elongated faces and noses sharply drawn , as if cut into the planes of the face . |
| 15 | It was as though they had returned to the relationship there had been between them on Ridgery Butts when he had taught her to use the bow , and encouraged her with gentle praise . |
| 16 | Her training , and her experience , had taught her to put the patient first , whatever her own feelings might be . |
| 17 | Involuntarily the landlord of the Feathers shivered , peering uncertainly up at this late wayfarer , whose peremptory summons on the front door had recalled him to undo the bolts he had only just shot to . |
| 18 | Once you had heard him conduct the Leningrad Philharmonic , you could never forget things like that famous pianissimo — not just because it was soft , but because it was incredibly intensive . |
| 19 | A month later a high-ranking army officer had heard him deliver the following verdict on integration : " They are not Provenals or Languedocians . |
| 20 | Seems like only yesterday ( well it was earlier this year ) that Lucie Fjeldstad , 49 , was boasting about the $100m IBM Corp had given her to lay the foundations of a multimedia business : now she is taking the IBM shilling , also known as early retirement incentives , and quitting her post as vice-president and general manager , Multimedia ; she was behind the Blockbuster agreements . |
| 21 | The second early influence came from his brother-in-law , William Jackson , a blind priest , who had joined him to develop the work among the blind . |
| 22 | Cornelius signalled by a flicker of one eyebrow that he knew Harry had expected him to say the exact reverse . |
| 23 | And she knew now why Nils had let her leave the hotel this evening . |
| 24 | She had promised to take me sailing , and Paula had let her borrow the boat for a few hours , as she had often done before . |
| 25 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |
| 26 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 27 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 28 | With her father 's fate still undecided , he had caught her cruising the shops as though she had n't a care in the world . |
| 29 | Mr Garsia said that when Mrs Cook discovered the dog had collapsed she telephoned the owners , and took the dog to a veterinary surgeon . |
| 30 | The Colonel had trusted him to rid the Chairman of the darts of the writer with the poisoned pen . |